D for TensorFlow-like library

[Muktabh via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 8 November 2015 at 18:06:00 UTC, TheFlyingFiddle wrote:
> On Sunday, 8 November 2015 at 17:47:33 UTC, Muktabh wrote:
>> We cannot make D bindings to it because it is a closed source 
>> project by Google and only a spec like mapreduce will be 
>> released, so I thought maybe I might try and come up with an 
>> open source implementation. I was just curious if D would be a 
>> good choice language for a library like this instead of C++ 
>> which is used by Google.
>
> Well, if you are going to write it yourself i see no reason why 
> D would be any worse a language the C++. You can get the same 
> speed, interface with the GPU in pretty much the same way etc. 
> You could probably do a lot in compile time to simplify writing 
> kernels in D. From my point of view D is simpler than C++ 
> as-well so that should help implementation. (no headers, sane 
> meta programming etc.)
>
> It does seem to be a huge undertaking however since tensorflow 
> seems to be a very complex library. But if you feel confident 
> in this domain then I would say go for it. It would be very 
> cool to have something like this in D.

Thanks for your answer.

It is a huge task and I am not going to achieve it all alone 
myself. I will start it alone but if my startup (which works on 
Deep Learning) scales up, we might work on it as a team.